Volta Medical, a pioneering health technology company developing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to assist electrophysiologists, announced a Joint Development Agreement with GE HealthCare, a leading global medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, and digital solutions innovator. Through this collaboration, Volta aims to integrate its latest AI solution, the Volta AF-Xplorer™, with GE HealthCare’s latest digital platform, Prucka™ 3 and CardioLab™ EP Recording system. The combined solutions are expected to enhance performance and streamline workflows for electrophysiologists during catheter ablation procedures to treat atrial fibrillation.
“Our mission to combat complex heart rhythm diseases relies on optimizing interoperability. Through this collaboration with GE HealthCare, we are advancing the frontier of current clinical applications in the field of electrophysiology,” said Théophile Mohr-Durdez, CEO and co-founder of Volta Medical. “To help enhance patient care in this field, Volta Medical aims to further integrate its AI solution with EP innovators to help increase compatibility and address the challenges clinicians face in analyzing cardiac electrical signals.”
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Volta Medical’s AI solution is designed to assist electrophysiologists in real-time assessment of dispersed electrograms (EGMs). This aligns with GE HealthCare’s CardioLab™ EP Recording system’s signal clarity. In bringing these technologies together, the companies aim to help physicians optimize management of AFib by integrating advanced EP recording capabilities with AI-driven dispersion information.
“Access to vast amounts of data empowers clinicians in their decision-making, but effectively using this data at the point of care can be challenging,” said Devon Bream, Global GM for Invasive Cardiology at GE HealthCare. “As GE HealthCare continues to advance our innovation to provide clinicians with precise signals in the EP lab, Volta Medical’s AI-driven solutions hold promise in consolidating and simplifying data, as well as assisting clinicians in making treatment decisions for their patients. I’m excited about our ongoing collaboration with Volta Medical as we work to innovate and transform electrophysiology labs to ensure patients receive the best possible care.”
This collaboration marks one of Volta’s key initiatives following the Heart Rhythm Society 2024 meeting where investigators presented the positive TAILORED-AF trial results during the Late-Breaking Clinical Trial and Science sessions which demonstrated improved freedom from AF in patients treated with AI-guided ablation compared to conventional anatomical ablation. The company is now focusing on early commercialization efforts and the completion of the RESTART clinical trial, which is evaluating the use of Volta’s AI ablation solution in recurrent-AF patients who failed previous ablations and are now undergoing Volta-supported ablation.
Source: GlobeNewsWire
